The Continuing Crisis
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...Of course it is also a health hazard, for very few of the women can swim in a soggy chador, and their veils make it almost impossible to breathe...
...In 1967 the Saturday Evening Club took it over, rechristening it The Alternative: An " Book Reviews American Spectator...
...William B. Head Production Manager K.J...
...William Beaty, Jr., 22, bit off more than he~ could chew on the night of August 13, 1978...
...But has our President considered the vast diversity of business transacted in the Republic...
...How will these temperatures affect the flora and fauna of Washington funeral parlors, psychiatric clinics, and whorehouses ? These are the questions that our colossal 96th Congress will now take up, and what body is by experience and disposition better seasoned for such reflections ? Parents all over America rejoiced when the Rt...
...Ge Haw, declined to sing an unfamiliar song...
...In Indiana, three members of the Marion County Sheriff's Department were suspended for encouraging a girl friend to expose her bosom to Lt...
...Wayne is given to threatening me every time I shove off an aspersion on the Hollywood art, and so you will understand if .I forebear from uttering anything denigratory about Hollywood culture...
...Kent Owen 17 Senior Editors "The way to write," A.J...
...Copyright The American : Spectator 1979...
...Hayakawa successfully sponsored a resolution making the week of April 1 National Mime Week, and he even led a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue featuring two bands furiously miming various patriotic marches...
...Unfortunately the management of the Circle Six waxed fainthearted when demonstrations ensued, and Mr...
...9 Another jogger has keeled over, this time in London...
...9 In Hollywood, California, Mr...
...Liebling wrote, "is well...
...In Washington, D.C., Senator S.I...
...Volume 12, Number 5, May 9 1979...
...James Howard Kunstler 12 15 Circulation Manager Put a little social welfare in your life...
...Walter Lammi 36 Microfilm editions of The American Spectator are available from Xerox University Microfdms, : Rock and Hawk: Robinson Jeffers and the Romantic Agony, 200 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106...
...The New York State Division of Human Rights has filed an anti-discrimination suit to compel the Road Runners of New York to allow wheelchair occupants entry into Road Runner marathons...
...Frederick W. Richmond, distinguished chairman of the House nutrition subcommittee, declared his support for banning television commercials aimed at children...
...Box 877, Bloomington, Indiana 47402, (812) 334-2715...
...Frank T. Herahan estimates that he suffered a $75,000 loss when a portable toilet collapsed beneath him last May...
...addressed stamped envelopes...
...9 That unexpected elephant rampage that so pothered downtown Decatur, Illinois, on March 31 has been laid to the inhumane behavior of a 17-year-old boy who with a broom and many anti-elephant epithets stampeded three Pygmy elephants as they were being brought to the arena of the George Hubler International Circus...
...He launched his campaign in Manchester, New Hampshire, and if the citizens of that state have any sense of humor whatsoever they will vote for him by the thousands...
...9 The ravenous ways of a Kansas City, Missouri, hearse driver have cost the Simmons Funeral Home a journey to court...
...Janet M. Novey Loving Liebling...
...Assorted Jackasses 42 The American Spectator was founded in 1924 by " George Nathan and Truman Newberry over a [ cheap domestic ale in McSorley's Old Ale " House...
...Eugene V. Rostow 9 Erich Eichman Has the UN Charter gone the way of the League of NaBusiness Manager tions' Covenant...
...All of which might indeed be admirable, but in a tedious slough like Sweden one has to have a little fun, and what could be'more pleasurable than slugging a ~p clamorous brat or deriding a fat boy as a capitalist-roader or a bourgeois bubble...
...Dale Vree 28 $!2, outside the United States $13...
...For permission to reproduce, please remit 9 $.20 per article-copy...
...Wayne appears to be tougher in reality than anything he has ever portrayed on film, and prudence counsels me to keep him friendly...
...9 That 33-year-o!d patriot and divine who rammed the gate of the Nixon compound with his' automobile whilst loudly declaring that he was God's disciple 'come to pick up Nixon' was released to the custody of his loving mother after suffering many pe'rsonal discourtesies...
...John Wayne rose up and, after months of surgery and medical tinkering, swaggered onto the stage of the Academy Awards looking brasher and tougher than ever...
...Harold Stassen is running for the Presidency, this time in earnest...
...Had the young man then stolen Miss Nevilles' handbag or shoved her through a window, he might have received a suspended sentence or free access to dozens of psychiatrists, job counselors, and palmists...
...All over the world were heard reports of death and of how nearby Harrisburg was glowing in the dark, yet no loss of life was reported...
...Yet no one else in Washington got the hint, and thousands of pages of the Congressional Record continued to accumulate...
...Ralph Nader and his allies do nothing, alas and alack...
...Karl O'Lessker 5 Managing Editor Steven C. Munson Good as Gold is an important late-seventies cultural event and a very bad novel...
...Gooderham Executive Secretary Deborah S. Grubb The Changes of China...
...And from Albuquerque, New Mexico, comes word that Mr...
...I Was a CETA Goldbrick...
...Joseph P. Duggan 24 Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish & Short Spectator's.Journal...
...Lawrence Clark Powell 37 ISSN O148-8414...
...Charlie Smith, the ex-slave who claims to be 136 years of age, it having been discovered that 32 of the 136 years were bogus...
...Ben Yagoda 22 Marc F. Platmer, G.W...
...9 By a vote of 259 to 6 the Swedish parliament has made it illegal for parents to slap, spank, or "humiliate" their children, thus denying Swedes one of the few pleasures left in that socialist paradise...
...4 William Kristol, Leslie Lenkowsky, Capitol Ideas /Inequality Now...
...but by November 1977 the word "alternative" had acquired such an eso- 9 teric flagrance that in order to discourage un- : solicited manuscripts from florists, beauticians, and other creative types the Club reverte4( to 9 ' Public Nuisances, by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
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...176176 ~176176176ee~ ~176176~176 oo6"oeooo ' ooeooooooooooooeoo oeo ooooo oooo ooooooooooo 9 eeeeeeeeeeoeeeeeoeoeoeeoeooeeeeeoe-elo oooo ooe~6ee, oeoeeoe eoeeooeooeoooo THE CONTINUING CRISIS eee•oo•eeoeeoooeoeee•o••e••eee••••e••o••eee•eoo•eo•o•o•eoeoo•••e••••e••eoo•••eoe•eoeoee•oeoo••eee••e••ooe•ooeeee•e•eooooee•oo•eooeoooo• eoeeoooeeoeooo 9 Mid-March through mid-April, and the Great Republic slogs through the tedium that occasionally afflicts a land when its third-rate leaders are attempting to be serious...
...A District Court judge has dismissed a parental malpractice suit in which a 25-year-old Boulder, Colorado, guitar player and occasional reader of Mother Jones magazine sought $350,000 ir damages from his parents for "intentional infliction of emotional distress...
...It is malum prohibitum to bring pre-purchased provender into the theater, and when Mr...
...Tom Bethell 21 A. James McAdams III, Robert McTiernan, Judy Mathews, Rev...
...All comespondence (manuscripts, subscriptions, threatening letters, federal grants, etc...
...The nature of that loss remains a mystery, but Mr...
...Such is life in the Great Republic...
...Published remarkably without regard to sex, : life-style, race, color, creed, or (most redun- 9 dantly of all) national origin...
...The American 9 The Culture of Narcissism: American Iafe in an Age of DiminSpectator is now published monthly at 102 IVest Sixth Street, Bloomington, Indiana...
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...Robert Carr, congressman from the great state of Michigan, expressed eloquent dudgeon when Capitol Hill police barred his staff members from playing Frisbee on the Capitol lawn...
...A Norfolk, Virginia, man charged with disorderly conduct for bringing a cookie into a theater got off scot-free...
...Steven R. Schlesinger & Bradford Wilson The high court's procedural dilemma resolved...
...George Nathan, 9 The Talkies / The China Syndrome and Reallafe...
...The Rt...
...William H. Nolte, Terry O'Rourke...
...RET 2 T h e American Spectator May 1979 oo~oOoooooooo~Qo~oooooooooooooQo~oto~ooe~o~ooo~QQ~oe~oQoQo~Qoo~oooQQQooet~o~oo~oooooooooo~oQeo a Editor-i,-Chief . . . . : -. _ _ ~ . . . . . _ _ -, . . . . , R. Emmett Tyrrell, J r. Senior Publishers C O N T E N T S Ronald E. Burr Baron Yon Kannon of the Saturday Evening Club Publisher Whit Stillman Joseph Heller: Fool's Gold...
...Further, our President is asking that Congress empower him to set federally mandated temperatures for places of business, to wit: 80 ~ and over in the summer, 65 ~ and under in winter...
...Assistant Managing Editor Internationalism in a Dangerous World...
...Police based their decision on a 1947 law that prohibits using the Capitol lawn as a playground, a law that obviously does not apply to the Capitol itself...
...Grubbs, Jr., Neil Howe, Roger Kaplan, Terry Krieger, " Editorial / The Mullah Brown...
...Stephen Miller 31 sent to The American Spectator, P.O...
...Mencken 26 the magazine's original name...
...Surely there will be a place for him in the Carter administration if our President's new energy, program is enacted...
...The government is now distributing videotapes advising children of their rights, and parents are receiving pamphlets notifying them that threats and physical punishment are bad for children...
...I believe the federal government...has the responsibility to intervene on behalf of children who lack overall sophistication, are unable to discern the difference between a product which tastes good and one which is good for them, and are incapable of comprehending or valuating [sic] the commercial message," said the New York solon who in April 1978 confessed to soliciting sexual relations with a minor...
...Without any regard for the safety of others, Mr...
...Finally in J idda, Saudi Arabia, the government has banned women from hotel swimming pools...
...Plunkitt, peterJ...
...Herahan has filed suit against the toilet's manufacturer and more information will indubitably be forthcoming...
...9 The new energy program, announced on April 5, calls for freeing the price of domestic crude oil but taxing profits earned therefrom...
...Actually America's worst nuclear disaster was positively wholesome when compared to an evening spent at Nashville, Tennessee's, TJ's bar, where on April 3 a guitarist was shot and four patrons wounded when the singer, Mr...
...Moreover, sunbathing in a soaked chador is absurd...
...Doubtless both temperatures were arrived at only after the most fastidious scientific inquiry, for our President is a nuclear physicist and friend of Admiral Hyman Rickover...
...Nellie M. Gearhart, deceased, they were following the hearse containing Mrs...
...9 Violent canoodling earned a Laurel, Maryland, man an 18-month stay in the calaboose despite his protestations of romantic love and personal authenticity...
...Brock Yates, one of the country's most esteemed motor sports journalists, pinned a tail on the Department of Transportation and rekindled America's ancient fires of liberty by sponsoring the fifth Cannonball Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash...
...Naomi Decter 34 manuscripts must be accompanied by self-" Polities and History: Selected Essays, by Raymond Aron...
...18 Americana Editor Joseph P. Duggan Associates Robert Asahina, Jameson G. Campaigne, Jr., Departments John R. Coyne, Jr., Stephen Miller, Alan Reynolds Contributors Aram Bakshian, Jr., Christopher C. DeMuth, " The Continuing Crisis...
...Clifton Durham, who, according to the authoritative Indianapolis Star, "has a reputation for being easily embarrassed...
...Rusthoven, Benjamin Stein Legal Counsel . Among the Intellectualoids / Jerry Rubin's Body...
...But the poor dope claimed he loved her, and so off to the dungeon...
...Harsh refused to surrender his offending cookie he was duly hustled off to jail...
...On March 21 a Prince George.'s County Circuit Court judge decided that Mr...
...Yet what became of the doughty usher...
...A. Lawrence Chickering, Adam Meyerson, Karl O'Lessker, Kent Owen Art Advisor Elliott Banfield The Supreme Court: Fact-free J ustice...
...Michael Munslow died on May 3" yet as the death toll mounts Mr...
...R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...Unsolicited " " 9 Dominus: A Woman Looks At Men's Lives, by Natalie Gittelson...
...It was on that night that the amorous youth gnawed off the lower lip of his girl friend, Miss Rose Marie Nevilles, during a passionate tryst...
...Second class postage paid at Bloomington, Indiana, and additional mailing offices, A one-year subscription (twelve issues) costs "' " " i " ishing Expectations, by Christopher Lasch & Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Ia'beration in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left, by Sara Evans...
...Yet three famed readers of The American Spectator labored mightily to enrich the commonweal...
...According to the brothers and sisters of 80-year-old Mrs...
...38 Current Wisdom...
...Harsh was freed...
...Inquiries were made, and when the Gearharts discovered that the driver sped up so that he might stop for a sandwich they filed a $20,000 law suit against the funeral home...
...Charles Horner The I Ching (Book of Changes) provides the key to Chinese strategic thought...
...by William H. Nolte...
...Finally, America was enlivened by its worst nuclear disaster as an insane hydrogen bubble in a nuclear reactor terrorized hundreds of Pennsylvanians and thousands of journalists, who spread tidings of calamity throughout the land and outnumbered anti-nuclear demonstrators at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor by twenty to one...
...Kenneth Harsh, 48, was holding a three-ounce chocolate chip cookie when an alert Circle Six Theater usher spotted him...
...2 Terry Eastland, Jerry Gerde, K.E...
...The Army Corps of Engineers announced plans to build a $10-million wading pool for whooping cranes, and Mr...
...According to a decree signed by Prince Fawaz ibn Abdel Aziz, Governor of Mecca, "It has been noticed that women are frequently attending hotel swimming pools and mixing with men, which is against our religious education...
...should be " " The Spirit of Liberalism, by Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr...
...Forty-seven vehicles roared off from a Darien, Connecticut, shopping plaza and raced 2,891 miles to a Redondo Beach, California, inn, defying the authoritarian 55 mph speed limit and assuring Yates, if there is any justice left, a 1979 Jefferson Award for Public Service...
...Gearhart as it began the 130-mile drive from Kansas City to Lamar when the funeral hauler suddenly raced away, leaving them in a cloud of dust...
...American prestige abroad suffered another blot when the Guinness Book of Records evicted Mr...
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